Books Recommended by Diane Rehm
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Source: "The story of a young girl growing up in the years following the Great Depression and who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless." - Diane Rehm
2 recommenders
The Lying Life of Adults
A Novel
Elena Ferrante
Source: "It’s the 1990s and we meet a teenager from a middle-class family, who learns the adults in her world are not to be trusted." - Diane Rehm
2 recommenders
The Prophets
Robert Jones, Jr.
Source: "Tells the story of two enslaved boys, Isaiah and Samuel, who fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in antebellum America." - Diane Rehm
2 recommenders
Klara and the Sun
A Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro
Source: "Set in a not-too-distant future where a young child must be schooled at home without classmates because of fragile health." - Diane Rehm
4 recommenders
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Source: "Was a national best seller and was seen as a voice for the emerging Civil Rights movement." - Diane Rehm
2 recommenders
Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard
Source: "Has revealed that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks." - Diane Rehm
1 recommender
1984
George Orwell
Source: "Examines the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and government repression." - Diane Rehm
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Source: "About the romantic devotion one man has for a woman from his youth." - Diane Rehm
3 recommenders
Lucky Boy
Shanthi Sekaran
Source: "Tells the story of two women and a baby boy caught between them." - Diane Rehm
1 recommender
The Dutch House
A Novel
Ann Patchett
Source: "The story of two siblings whose mother abandons them as young children." - Diane Rehm
3 recommenders
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